Ringocity (www.Ringocity.com) is a certified reseller Vocalocity’s phone system

Dec. 5, 2013 - PRLog -- Ringocity (www.Ringocity.com) is proud to announce that it is a certified reseller of Vocalocity’s phone systems. Ringocity will focus its consulting services to small business owners. Vocalocity, A Vonage Company, will be powering the virtual phone system engine for Ringocity. As many may know, Vonage has acquired Vocalocity in a $130 million transaction.  In so doing, Vonage — which is best known as a provider of residential VoIP phone services — has increased the number of small business customers it serves. We at Ringocity.com are excited to be part of this growing company.

Vocalocity started in 2006 as a provider of VoIP services.  VoIP stands for “Voice over Internet Protocol,” a phone system that connects via the Internet instead of traditional phone lines and switches.  At the time of the acquisition, Vocalocity had 23,000 small business customers.  Vonage, which has 2.4 million total subscribers, doesn’t release its numbers specifically for small business customers, but it already had a sizeable number of SMBs as customers, as well.

The small-business VoIP service in the combined company will now be marketed under the Vonage Business Solutions brand. Vonage’s third quarter 2013 earnings release stated:

“This transformative acquisition will place Vonage at the forefront of the large and rapidly growing small and medium business market.”

Translation?  Vonage is now one of the largest providers of VoIP services to the SMB market.

And the market size for hosted VoIP services to small businesses is significant.  According to a July 2013 report by Frost & Sullivan, the SMB market alone for VoIP is $15 billion annually.

Yet, 85% of small businesses are still using traditional phones, estimates Wain Kellum, President of the new Vonage Business Solutions, and formerly Vocalocity’s CEO.  He told us in an interview that small businesses not using VoIP are missing out on benefits.

When small business owners first learn about VoIP,  he said they initially are attracted due to the cost savings.  On average, VoIP can reduce monthly phone costs by at least 30% — depending on how many calls the business makes, what percentage are international calls, and other factors.  It’s only later that the business owners come to understand the operational improvements that a VoIP system can bring, Kellum added:

“A lot of small business customers come to us because we take their existing phone bill and cut it significantly.  But then they discover all the things you can do with a cloud-based phone system.  It can give a small business new ways of doing things that a traditional phone system can’t.  One of the advantages of a cloud-based VoIP system is that you can integrate with other cloud services.  For instance, your customer service personnel can see a QuickBooks record about a past due payment when a customer calls in, and can issue a verbal reminder.”

While the term “cloud” is still confusing to some, the conversation has gotten a lot easier now that there are more business services in the cloud, Kellum said. “We just explain that they currently buy things at places such as Amazon over the cloud, or Internet.  Today they can buy their phone service through the cloud, too.”

For a free phone system analysis feel free to check out Ringocity at www.Ringocity.com or call 855-606-5488. (http://www.ringocity.coim)